[gubamyster]

Officials and experts say that widespread flooding, overflowing reservoirs and rivers does not end the drought.

Exactly. I've been hearing about this stupid drought for the entire 35 years since I moved here. (If it's yellow, its mellow. If it's brown flush it down.)

They are too stupid to capture the water flowing down the LA River & Santa Ana River into the ocean.

Drought gives them a reason to hype the panic & raise our taxes. But we still have funds for that Browndoggle slow-train to Fresno and hiring Holder to keep criminal illegal aliens, and money for the homeless and, and, and.......

[kingu]

Two fair sized nuke plants powering a few desalinization plants and you've got all the water you could ever desire for California, and for much less effort than trying to recapture, treat, filter, re-treat, sterilize, re-filter and re-treat runoff in the LA and Santa Ana river beds.

Oh, and far more reliably since you could run the plants 24/7/365 vs sporadic and rather random storm systems in Southern California.

[Pelham]

“They are too stupid to capture the water flowing down the LA River & Santa Ana River into the ocean. “

That’s just LA with their concrete river bed. Makes a great movie set, but pretty lousy for catching water.

The Santa Ana riverbed is loaded with settling basins.